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Number of views explode in my portfolio after breaking news...

I will OPT IN!


P.S.

If, however, your Stockxpert "XXL" image falls below the pixel length range for an "Ultra", it will be available as a "Super" PPD and EL.

So!

Super (roughly XL on Stockxpert)

Our XL on StockXpert goes into EL!!

Am I wrong!?

subs commissions again!!!

I still don't feel like opting-in after and amazing PPD week..

I will opt-in as soon as they increase the subs commissions.. but 30cents is not enough..

I am pleased for people who feel desperation to opt-in but this is still not fair..

I wish we stood for subs increase just like we did for ELs..

But I see happily bending knees on most contributors..

This is like we should have been in heaven.. But they only wanted to give us the world.. By showing us . first, they made us content with the world.. Now, they don't have to give us the heaven anymore??

They must be saying.. "The reaction is good, now these underpaid slaves will be quiet for another year while we eat all the extra subs commissions money.."

Yes, thanks StockXpert... Thank you for screwing us less..

It is not that I am not pleased.. I am.. Who would not want to be screwed less?!

This is fashionable now.. So, I will join you guys.. Thank you StockXpert.. You have been amazing.. I will shut up for a year now, and won't mention subs commissions just because you gave me my own rights to EL files..

I am sure this was the plan.. A way to not increase commission on subs.. "Let's just propose something totally unreasonable and then pull it back so while they are all mad they won't even mention subs.."

Great!!

Thank you StockXpert!!

All seems fair enough to me. I'm happy. Life's too short. I've already ticked the boxes.

yeah, echo here about a thanks to StockXpert for listening to the contributors and to Steve for responding to comments and listening.

I too think this looks good now, so I will be opting back in and seeing if i get many sales from photos.com and StockXpert+  hopefully we should see how it goes fairly quickly as they are both established sites and if there are downloads they should be coming in fairly quickly.

One thing I did notice in the previous week (the first time i was ever opted out of subs) is that my sales didn't get hurt at all, i received a number of XL sales that I never received before...  so if there isn't very many sales at photos.com I will have to consider (and test) which makes more money.. geting extra sub sales, or getting XL downloads....
HOWEVER, the possibility of getting PPD sales on photos.com is also a great plus for that site so hopefully it works out to be considerably more profitable to be with photos.com

I have opted back into subs, but I must admit, it is with a bit of a sick feeling.  I hate to endorse 30 cents per download, but I will give this a whirl because I am grateful to StockXpert for not saying "our way or the highway" and I will see what happens.  Hopefully we can distinguish between the two plans in our sales reporting.

The rest of this post might be moot if the (c) has changed, if it did I missed it.

One thing that troubles me though is that images say "property of Photos.com" or "Jupiter Images".  Did I miss where this point changed at all, or are we still anonymous contributors to this program?  What about the name brands that everyone has worked so hard to build. 

Are we anonymous so buyers cannot easily search our names on another site to find their ppd's for different prices?

But, when it comes to "search fairness" we will not all be equal?  The buyers won't be able to find a style they love - and click through to, say, Yuri's portfolio and shop there for more images.   Maybe the sales will be more evenly spread out? 

I'm still uncomfortable if my Intellectual Property will be flogged without my name beside the copyright.

Thanks for that.  I guess the keywords then are:

Please note that we will be addressing the artist name on the image details page for copyright acknowledgment post-launch.

Hopefully post-launch means immediately after launch, and not a few years down the road.

If you are trying to get people on side I suggest you start by not insulting them quite so much and follow up by not being quite so arrogant in you tone.

It was a noice surprise to see this news in my mailbox today.  However, I'll stay opted out because of my overall disagreement with the subs model.  Again, it's not about our commission, but about the incredibly cheap prices of subs images. 

When I was still opted-in, I had one new image sold 4 times, only in subs.  Months later, I sold it other 5 times, making almost 10x what I earned in 4 subs.  Subs buyers won't buy credits just to buy my image?  I couldn't care less about these rapine birds.

Regards,
Adelaide